MISSING MARGARET HANLEY: NAVY VET AND GRANDMOTHER, FAMILY SUSPECTS SCAM
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Margaret Hanley, 72, a Navy veteran and beloved grandmother, has been missing since Monday, Febuary 8.
Son Jomo Thompson says his mother has some short-term memory loss. After noting unusual bank activity, the family suspects Margaret may have been scammed.
Hanley’s last known location was identified in Georgia. She's driving a 2001 Toyota RAV4 with a license plate of ESMF23.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Jomo Thompson - Son of Margaret Hanley
- Sgt. Josh Sterner, Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Office
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Where is Margaret Hanley? |
| 0:14.5 | This mother and grandmother, let me add, is the U.S. Navy veteran who has been deployed all around the world protecting us. |
| 0:25.5 | And now it's our turn to help her and her family. Margaret Hanley, 23-year Navy veteran, mother and grandmother, disappears last seen in her own home. |
| 0:43.7 | Was she a victim of some bizarre scam? Joining me not only Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative |
| 0:50.8 | reporter, Sergeant Josh Sterner of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Department, |
| 0:55.7 | who is on the road in his cruiser right now looking for her, but also her son, Jomo Thompson. |
| 1:04.3 | Mr. Thompson, thank you for joining us. You're joining us from Kentucky. Tell me when you learned |
| 1:09.3 | your mom is missing. How did that happen? One of her |
| 1:13.8 | brother, she has 11 brothers and sisters, and they communicate daily to kind of keep up with each |
| 1:20.2 | other, which I think is great. And they told me, one of my uncles told me the last that he |
| 1:25.6 | heard from her was on Monday the 8th. And he |
| 1:30.3 | alerted me to this on Wednesday when I found out. I called one of her friends that regularly |
| 1:36.6 | visits her, Oma. And she told me, yes, she hadn't heard from my mom either. And so that's when |
| 1:42.2 | we called the police and tried to figure out what's going |
| 1:45.7 | on where she could be. Okay, let me understand something. I need to get the timeline perfectly |
| 1:51.5 | reported. Mr. Thompson, you stated that one of her brothers called you and said he last heard |
| 2:00.5 | from her on the 8th. |
| 2:02.9 | That would be February the 8th. |
| 2:04.8 | But I have another conflicting report that she was seen in her home, February 9. |
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